Item Summary

Color plates (chromolithographs) show Havana and other areas of Cuba, including general city views, historic sites, street scenes, and rural settings.

Descriptive Information

Title
Album pintoresco de la isla de Cuba.
Call Number
F-000002
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc2j62sg249
Publisher
[Berlin?] : B. May y Ca., [ca. 1855] ; Berlin : Oilprinting Storch & Kramer.
Language
Spanish
Date Created
1855
Extent
[1], 27, [2] leaves (folded) : all col. ill., 2 maps ; 25 x 36 cm.
References
Sabin 11748
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. Morro y entrada puerto de la Habana
2. Vista de la Habana
3. Vista de la Habana, parte de Estramuros
4. Haban
5. Habana
6. Habana
7. Plaza de Armas
8. Puertas de Monserrate
9. Teatro de Tacon y parte del Paseo de Isabel II
10. Fuente de la India en el Paseo de Isabel IIa.
11. Alameda de Paula
12. El quitrin
13. El pandero y el malojero
14. El casero
15. Valla de gallos
16. Dia de reyes, the holy kings day
17. El zapateado ... (national dance)
18. Matanzas
19. Morro y entrada del puerto de Santiago de Cuba
20. Vista genl. de la cuidad y montañas de Baracoa
21. Cercanias de Baracoa
22. Vista de la iglesia major y de la Ermita del Buen Viaje
23. Vivienda de los pescadores de esponjas
24. Trinidad
25. Corrida de toros
26. Vista de una casa de calderas
27. Vista de una vega de tabaco.
Notes
First published in Havana in 1847-1848 as Viaje pintoresco alrededor de la isla de Cuba, by Federico Mialhe. It was pirated twice in the next decade by the Berlin publisher Bernardo May, who succeeded in defending himself against a breach of copyrigt suit by Mialhe and his Havana publisher Louis Marquier.
Includes illustrated title page and two maps: Mapa historico pintoresco moderno de la isla de Cuba and Plano pintoresco de la Habana.
Palau 5395 and Le bibliophile americaine / Librairie Ch. Chadenat, no. 20 (1897), both describe editions containing 26 ill. rather than the 27 contained here. Palau dates his ca. 1840; Chadenat, 1853. NUC pre-1956 calls for 2 maps, as does Chadenat.
Binding Note
GAX copy: Original red cloth, stamped in gilt on covers.

Discovery Information

Subject
Cuba—Pictorial works
Cuba—Social life and customs—Pictorial works

Physical Characteristics

File Count
130

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e3f1854b-2461-4ea4-bde8-f6be5dcc9f88/manifest